Apartment and Crossposting
February 25th, 2003
I slept in the new apartment for the first time last night. Yesterday, Dave helped my move over most of the really heavy furniture, like the bed and my desk and stuff. He’s going to enlist his kids one night this week to help my move all the rest of my little stuff in exchange for pizza. That should be very helpful. Big thanks to Dave.
In other news, I’ve rigged up a bit of an automated LJ crossposting system. It uses a CGI script working as an XML-RPC server to accept pings from MovableType, it then launches another perl script which reads in a specially formatted page that contains the entry, and sends it off to LiveJournal. That should make posting these a bit easier, since I won’t have to copy over the text by hand anymore. Yay!
Glad to hear the move is going well - and congratulations! I think you will enjoy living in your own place - perhaps it will give you the time to go back to school(!). Pretty soon you will have fun memories in the new place - and maybe Mary and I will fly out there to visit this summer (or at least we can drive). Check JTN’s journal - seems he has a job!
Take care - don’t forget there are a lot of people out here who care about you!
Hi Chip,
When I wrote yesterday regarding your switch from LJ to MT, I don’t know how I missed this entry. Even if it isn’t shrink wrapped, is this perl code something you’d mind I take a try at on my server?
I like the approach, hooking into MT’s ping ability. I hadn’t thought of that technique.
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Scott
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sbilik at mac dot com